MiceCast

Disneyland isn’t a museum. Walt said it would never be complete. So did he actually demolish attractions that were still drawing guests? A 1956 Disneyland Incorporated guidebook is the map. Phantom Boats didn’t work. Tomorrowland’s early exhibits left for the new Tomorrowland, and the buildings mostly stayed. Fantasyland held. Pack mules were an operations problem, not a hit Walt killed. Jungle Cruise stayed. When Small World came home from the World’s Fair, he built past the berm instead of clearing a favorite. Greg walks the 1956 guidebook land by land. The verdict: he only cut the crap. 51 Minutes.

A rented scooter is not a FastPass and it is not a DAS pass. Your host's take on the Instagram scooter gangs, the back door, and the Knott’s paper clock Disney should steal. Able-bodied guests are filming themselves circling the park on ECVs. Invisible disabilities are real. So is the “usual suspects” act: weave, honk, demand the exit, and treat $60 like a line skip. Your hosts lived the wheelchair version of this years ago. Their verdict is not “ban the scooter.” It is bounce the performers and enforce the rules Disney already printed. 37 Minutes.

The People Mover track is gone. Walt’s apartment lamp was not a sacred light from 1966. Sometimes Castles’ Ry sits with Greg, Mike, and Shaft to kill folklore, walk the trestle, and comment about Iger. Ry (Sometimes Castles) wrote I Love Disneyland and lives in the TikTok/Instagram news cycle. The old podcasters worked the graveyard shift, held the key to Walt’s apartment, and walked Tomorrowland end to end. This is what happens when those two rooms talk. Recorded inside Disneyland for the best ambiance. 77 Minutes.

Josh D'Amaro is six months into the CEO chair. He cut marketing, he cut creatives, he brought back "ladies and gentlemen," and the stock is sitting flat. Your hosts give the parks guy running the whole company a checkup. They do not pretend film is carrying anything. 38 Minutes.

Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is a fail. Wait times and breakdowns already said so. Your hosts keep score on every Disney retheme they actually rode: Pirates, Nemo Subs, Star Tours, Guardians, Autopia, Bug’s Land. And the record is ugly. 57 Minutes.

You can projection-map a garage now. A flat movie on Tiana’s drop is not a flex. Your hosts mark the walls, waterfalls, and graveyards where a projector would plus the ride and the ones that already made it look cheap. That wall behind the pirate ship is just black. Put ships on the horizon. When the moon comes out, turn the crew into skeletons. That’s a plus. A TV on Tiana’s drop is not. 47 Minutes.

Disney Springs parking was never a $35 theme-park coupon. People treated it like one anyway. The guys have zero sympathy for the cheat code, call hallway influencers creepy, and still manage to get lost in a Frank Lloyd Wright house before they find the point again. 57 Minutes.

Instagram is full of overflowing Disneyland trash cans and bathrooms with no toilet paper, no towels, and stains on the floor. That used to be the one thing this park did not do. Your hosts talk about why it’s happening: staffing, scheduling, post-COVID management, and a standard that used to be “never let a can get half full.” Lillian Disney thought amusement parks were dirty. Walt said his wouldn’t be. 38 Minutes.

When it comes to D23, Billy Flynn from the musical "Chicago" put it best: "Give 'em the old razzle dazzle, razzle dazzle 'em. Give 'em an act with lots of flash in it, and the reaction will be passionate...Razzle dazzle them and they'll never catch wise." Your MiceCast hosts latch onto the miniscule, not already known Parks information coming out of D23. The Tomorrowland announcement being front and center. Your hosts fall victim to the cursed MiceCast Unrelated Subject Bug™ so be ready for a long one. 83 Minutes.

It seems like Disney builds hotels everywhere. Which begs the question, is the Mouse good neighbor? And while we’re at it, are Disney hotels actually too Disney? Has the magic gotten so over-the-top that it’s starting to feel forced? We dig into the controversy that is Disney’s hotel empire. 65 Minutes.